Custom Rust maps: how to make your own

Everything you need to make custom Rust maps, step by step, from the first terrain to walking your map in game with friends.

Make a custom map

The full workflow in order: terrain in Crucible Heightmap, the .map export, then monuments, roads and rail in RustEdit. How to make a custom Rust map • Build order cheatsheet • Export your Rust map

Heightmaps in RustEdit

What a Rust heightmap is, and how to bring a .raw heightmap and its painted splats into RustEdit with World Creator. What is a Rust heightmap? • Import a .raw heightmap and splats

Spawns and sizes

What decides where trees, ore and players spawn, and which map size and resolution to pick. Rust biomes and topology • Rust map sizes • Heightmap resolution for each map size

Test and compare

Walk your map on a Rust server on your own PC before you ship it, and see how Crucible compares to other ways of making terrain. Test your map on a local server • Crucible vs hand-drawing or procedural tools

Creator guides

Take a Crucible Heightmap map into Creator, Rook’s 3D map and prefab editor, and build it out there. From Crucible Heightmap to Creator • Build order in Creator

Video guides

The whole workflow on video, from installing Crucible to a finished custom map terrain. Watch the playlist